The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-03-30

Saratoga, reports from Port Spain, Trina
dad, that while at San Fernado anchorage,
February q, a small boat was swamped
OF La Brae Point, and the paymasters
clerk. apothccary, armorer and coXswaln,
lost their lives
1t is learned, on good authority, that Sec
rci&ry Nanning'S successor will not bc ap-
pointed before April /, the date upon which
Mr Manuing's resi- ignatlon takes effect. The
belief still prevails that Assistant Secretary
Fairchild will receive the appointment.
y special from Bcsscmcr, Mich. states
that Il boarding house, owned by the Colby
Iron Company. was burned early Wcdnes-
day morning. The bodies of 10 persons
burned 10 death have been taken out. Sew
cral others who were badly burned, arc
expected to die.
The Jury in the trial of eN-Aldcrman
!carv. one of the doodle Aldermen,
nave disagreed and have been discharged.
| II Is said they stood SIX to sN. Cicary was
released on $40, ,o0G ball. the amount md
| bondsmcn being the same as before
trial.
Senator Cullom says that Mrs. Cullom's
enthusiasm for the interstate commerce
bill WAS simply intense until she learned by
the mcrcSt accident that when 1t became q
| law she would not be able to ride on passes
any more After that she turned regular
somerSault and became one OF the leaders
Of the opposition.
Mr.. Gladstones review of the las: part
Of the Grcville Memoirs, which is expected
to set Mr.. Grcville right on the subject of
GladstoneS relations with Lord Palmerston,
will be published in the English Utst0rtcaI
| VUgaztne, not in the Nlneteenth Century,
rs announced.
Sir Charles Dixie retains much of his
popularity in Chelsea. He has adopted ex-
trcme Radical views and fraternizes with
the huTbcst people, being ever ready to
aid them with his plcthoric purse. 1t is eX-
pcctcd that he will be returned to Parlia-
mcnt at the first opportunity.
Mayor Hewitt will veto, in the presumed
interest Of economy, the resolution adopted
by the Aldermen providing for cngrossing
and framing the resolutions adopted by the
| board in 1883 on the death of Peter Cooper.
They are elaborately engrosscd and con-
tanned in q frame seven feet by six.
Another of the well known beauties of
the London social world is about to forsake
the drawing room-though not for the stage
Mrs. Wheeler, so well known as the con-
temporary of the Jersey Lily, both in
beauty and popularity, being about to enter
4 dress makers establishment as one of the
working partners.
Walter Chisolm and Thomas Cobb, stu
dents in the Georgia University, tried to
fight duel at Sand Bar Ferry, but were
arrested before they got there. The affair
originated in charge by brother of
Thomas that Chisolm had received assist
ancc in the examination room. No fur
thcr trouble is anticipated.
At Troy, n. Y, the Grand Central The,
atre, corner Of Broadway and Fourth
streets. was burned at , o'clock this morn
ing. The loss is $11 900; insurance IS, 600.
The department had just responded to an
alarm of tire on the dock at J. Onderkirk'<
rag storehouSe, which was burned out,
causing i loss Of about $1,000.
1t is stated on good authority that the
option will remain open to the Ives Stay
rcr syndicate for the control Of the Balti
more and Ohio railroad until April l, Gar
rctt. it is said, cleared 100000 out of the
Sullv syndicate failure, and it is also stated
that the Garrett interest has purchased all
the stock of the Jonhs Hopkins University
One of the ladies in the burning hotel al
Buffalo escaped from the building with
nothing but her presence Of mind. AS she
diGnt propose to make q spectacle OF her
self in such a gauzy covering, she bor-
rowcd pair of trousers from one man
and an ovcrcoat from another, and skipped
through the crowd to place where she
could get some duds.
Mr.. Blaine has written to a friend in
New York that he has been working harder
in the last two months than at any period
Of his life He has been engaged in the re
vision of his speeches and papers for publ.
cation He proposes to take rest next
month and run out to the Indian Terri.
tory to pay visit to his daughter, Mrs.
Coppingcr.
At Newark, Ohio, Jacob Brend died
from the effects of 4 pan of scalding water
thrown upon him by his wife on Sunday
last. The couple had frequently quarreled,
and on this occasion. Mrs Brend threw a
pan of boiling water in his face She kept
everybody out of the house after the scald-
ing, but Since his death, she has become a
raving maniac.
The only reason why Speaker Carlisle
hcsitatcs over the acceptance of the vacant
Treasury portfolio is said by a leading cor
respondent to be his fear that he cannot
stand the expense which its occupancy
would involve in asocial way. There may,
Of course, be something of truth in the
statement, but it is thought that Mr.. Car
Isle has other reasons for his hesitancy-
one being that Inc position has not been
offered to him.
William Duane Morgan, who died at
Washington, Pa, several days ago, was a
grandson of William Duane, who edited
JctTerson's Philadelphia organ, the Aurura
His paternal grandfather, Colonel George
| Morgan was commissioned an Indian Agent
by John Hancock, as President of the Con-
tinental Congress. The deceased edited the
Washington Democratic journal, Our Coun-
hy.. the New Lisbon, Ohio, Puiri0t. and
the Newark, Ohio, -idt0cate.
President Cleveland was asked on the
18th by Mr. Soteldo, the Minister from
| Venezuela, why he was not celebrting the
natal day, and said: Vanity, vanity, it is
all vanity. Ii man really feels that his
| birth was stroke Of luck to him, let him
rejoice by all means; but I don't thinks he
has any right to disturb the town about it
and don't think it would be modest to ask
| al the rest Of the world to rejoice in an
! event which had so little interest for them. ;"
The KNIGHTS Of Labor in North Carolina